Diamond And Silk Claim the Media Is Exaggerating Coronavirus Data To Make Trump Look Bad

Infamous Trump supporters Diamond and Silk believe the media is inflating coronavirus statistics to make the administration look bad.

The duo, born Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson and who — according to the Hollywood Reporter, are paid by Fox News Media to license weekly videos — made the claims during a Facebook Live session on Sunday, March 29.

“In a matter of two weeks, over 1,000 people supposedly died
from the coronavirus. In a two-weeks time period, over 1,000 people — after
being tested positive — have died from the coronavirus, but it took 39 days,
from January all the way up to February the 29th, I believe, for the first
person to die,” Silk read from her notes.

Diamond and Silk believe the media is conspiring against President Donald Trump. (Photo: Screenshot/Twitter)

After Diamond expressed her approval, Silk continued to rattle
off data.

“My president said on March the 24th, Tuesday this past
week, my president said that he would love for America to be back up and
running,” Silk continued.

“I knew this was gon’ happen. I knew after he said this this was gon’ happen. Go ahead,” Diamond interjected.

“At the time, he said it there was 25,489 cases with 307 deaths. Instantaneously, you had the media calling President Trump out, he want it open by Easter, he want this open by Easter — me and you was talking, I said now watch the number of deaths go up,” Silk said. “Watch everything increase because they want to make it look bad in front of our eyes.”

There were 52,976 diagnoses and 704 deaths by 9 p.m. on March 24, according to CNN. As of Tuesday afternoon, there were more than 177,000 diagnoses and more than 3,400 deaths — more deaths than from the 9/11 terror attacks, according to USA Today.